Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential ‘Kumo’ search brand

Posted by sumeethevans on December 3 2008, 12:05 AM.
Posted in Microsoft Corp.

After a weekend of “it’s on-again/no it’s not” rumors regarding Microsoft doing some kind of search deal with Yahoo, it’s worth noting the Redmondians are still pushing ahead with their plan to rebrand Live Search as “Kumo.”

It’s not justthe Kumo.com domain that the Softies have registered. It turns out it also has registered related placeholder names for some of the verticals that the company’s search unit has been targeting — such as, travel, healthcare, wiki-search and the like.